Bursts/The Unhurried Family Evening
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The Unhurried Family Evening

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A shared evening meal preview

A shared evening meal

Eating (mindful)

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For Biddulph the family meal is the central daily ritual. He writes 'hurry is the enemy of love', so the practice is to sit, eat slowly, and let the day's pace fall away.

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26mins
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3 mins
Activity
20 mins
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3 mins

Bearmore’s thoughts on doing eating (mindful) before being in nature

There's a useful connection here because moving from internal nourishment to outdoor connection extends the caring attention outward.

Walk after dinner preview

Walk after dinner

Being in nature

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Biddulph keeps coming back to 'going to the park, engaging with nature' as a daily spiritual practice. After dinner the simplest version of this is a walk outside, alone or with whoever's around, without a destination in mind or a phone in hand.

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28mins
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4 mins
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20 mins
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4 mins

Bearmore’s thoughts on doing being in nature before body scan

This pairing is especially effective because the sensory grounding from nature primes heightened body awareness, deepening the relaxation a scan brings.

Body scanning preview

Body scanning

Body scan

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Wild Creature Mind (2024) is Biddulph's argument that the body, is where presence lives. The practice here is a short body scan, lying or seated, noticing without getting fixed on anything, to let the day's analytical mind quieten down.

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25mins
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5 mins
Activity
15 mins
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5 mins